The Windsor Guide; Containing a Description of the Town and Castle; The Present State of the Paintings and Curiosities In the Royal Apartments An Historical Account Of the Monuments &c. in St George’s Chapel; With the Foundation of the Royal College of St George and the Institution and Ceremonies of the Order of the Garter. BOUND WITH A Pocket Companion To the Royal Palace of Kensington, Kew and Hampton Court; With a Concise Account Of the Towns, Villages, Villas, and Remarkable Places, Within XIV Miles of Windsor To which are Added Short Sketches of the Lives Of the Most Eminent Painters [Later Edition – Full Leather Binding]

Windsor: Printed for C. Knight., New Edition, 1790s. Full leather binding, rubbed and worn, with loss to the leather, gilt titles to a red label, text block tight, darkened page top edges, all red speckled, pages tanned. With 2 folding plates and 4 full page plates to the Windsor volume and a folding map to the Palaces volume. Scarce Pocket Companion volume. Pagination: (Windsor) [iv], 90pp with 6 plates (2 folding). (Palaces) [ii], 44; [ii], 26; [ii], 32pp with 3 separate title pages and a map. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 6 ¾ inches (17cm) tall. Condition Report Externally Spine – fair condition – gilt titles to a red label, rubbed and worn with loss. Joints – fair condition – split to the top of the front joint, rear joint sound. Corners – good condition – rubbed and worn. Boards – fair condition – rubbed and worn, with much of the leather missing. Page edges – good condition – all edges speckled red, darkened to the top. Binding – fair condition – much of the leather missing (insect damage?), structurally holding well, text block tight. See above and photos. Internally Hinges – good condition – sound, split to the top of the front hinge. Paste downs – good condition – tanned and foxed. End papers – good condition – tanned and foxed. Title – good condition – tanned. Pages – good condition – tanned. See photos.…